The brain's emergency response call - The Guardian
26 May 2012, 1:40 pm
The film clip shows shows microglial cells (labelled green) migrating towards injured neurons in the embryonic zebrafish brain. Microglia are immune cells that act as the brain's emergency workers - they constantly patrol the organ, extending ...

Cell therapy may ease chronic pain - zeenews.india.com
25 May 2012, 10:38 pm
In their study, the scientists transplanted immature embryonic nerve cells that arise in the brain during development and used them to make up for a loss of function of specific neurons in the spinal cord that normally dampen pain signals.

No New Neurons for Smell? - Science Now
25 May 2012, 6:49 pm
Do our brains continue to produce neurons throughout our lifetimes? That's been one of the most hotly debated questions in the annals of science. Since the 1950s, studies have hinted at the possibility, but not until the late 1990s did research prove that ...

Boston area is home to mouse studies on chronic pain - Examiner
24 May 2012, 6:36 pm
This week, a study published in Neuron by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco reported successful results from an experiment to alleviate chronic pain in mice by transplanting neurons into their spinal cords.  The transplanted cells ...

Genetic 'reset switch' enables signaling pathway to induce multiple developmental outcomes for olfactory neurons - medicalxpress.com
24 May 2012, 7:37 am
Within the nervous system, a handful of signaling pathways modulate development of a cornucopia of different neuronal subtypes. “Even small alterations in neuron differentiation pathways can disrupt subsequent circuit organization and catalyze ...

Findings on New Brain Cells Could Spell Success for Your Weight Loss Plans - Med India
22 May 2012, 2:49 pm
Snyder Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine said that the idea that the brain is still forming neurons even in the adulthood has become well-established over the past several decades. However, researchers ...

Brain Cells With Signs of Alzheimer's Killed Off - LiveScience.com
22 May 2012, 12:26 pm
In a defense mechanism gone wrong, our brain's own helper cells start to kill off neurons — the brain cells responsible for thinking — when they show signs of Alzheimer's, new research suggests. Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia and the ...

Autism scientists search for help, for their own kids' sakes - USA Today
21 May 2012, 8:05 pm
then back into neurons, or brain cells. A challenge at home, too This work was made more difficult, Dolmetsch says, by the fact that caring for a child with a disability is a full-time job. Although his wife, neurobiologist Asha Nigh ...

Know Your Neurons: How to Classify Different Types of Neurons in the Brain’s Forest - Scientific American
16 May 2012, 1:45 pm
Scientists have organized the cells that make up the nervous system into two broad groups: neurons, which are the primary signaling cells, and glia, which support neurons in various ways. The human brain contains around 100 billion neurons and ...

Know Your Neurons: The Discovery and Naming of the Neuron - Scientific American
14 May 2012, 11:52 am
Over the years, I have taught my copy of Microsoft Word a lot of neuroscience terminology: amygdala, corpus callosum, dendritic spines, voxel. But it always knew what neuron meant. I thought I did too. Neurons—the electrically excitable cells ...